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PATENTED .NOV. 17, 1903'.

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UNITED STATES Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,484, dated November 1'7, 1903.

Application filed August 15, 1903. erial No. 169,557. (No model.) I

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADA V. CASE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corsets; and I declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to corsets, and has for its object improvements by the development of which I am able to produce a straightfront corset flexible and expansible over the hip and at the bust and whichvdraws down 1 and fits closely around the form, especially over the hips.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the corset as it appears on the form. Fig. 2 shows the left side of the corset.

The front 2 is straight from the top binding 3 to the bottom binding 4 along the meet-.

ing or hooking edges at the front of the corset, and the straight parts extend at the botgored to conform to the curvature of the body under the arm and to the middle of the back,

and beneath this gored part of the garment is an expansible hip-section 6'with elastics e, 6 e e e e e e 6 and e The uppermost of the elastic sections e is somewhat above the middle line from top to bottom and at a higher point than the lower elastic d of the section 5, giving an opportunity for a slight Waist expansion. The other portions of the elastic section 6 are of increasing length Behind the from above downward to the middle elastic c and from thence of decreasing length from i above downward to the bottom elastic e This section 6 of elastic is preferably made from separate pieces of webbing rather than from a single piece of elastic webbing.

The garment fits over the hip at the high point of the hip and fits snugly over the entire curve of the hip, bringing the bottom band 4: snugly around the form of the wearer where the part 4* passes the curve.

There is the ordinary hooking or buttoning steel up the front and lacing steel at the back and a steel at each side of the hip-gore, whose 8 for the front steel, 9 for the lacing-steel, 10 for the steel in front of the gore, and 11 for the steel behind the hip-gore.

What I claim is 1 In a corset, in combination an inelastic top binding, an inelastic bottom binding, a straight front extending from top to bottom and diagonally under the bust-swell, a bustswell extendingfrom the top binding to a point intermediate the top and bottom of said corset, a hip-swell, an elastic gore in the high point of the hip-swell extending from the bottom binding to a point intermediate the top and bottom of the corset, substantially as described.

2. In a corset, in combination an inelastic top-binding, an inelastic bottom binding, a straight front extending from top to bottom and diagonally under the bust-swell, a bustswell extending from the top binding to a point intermediate thetop' and bottom of said corset, a hip-swell, an elastic gore in the high point of the hip-swell extending from the bottom binding to a point intermediate the top and bottom of the corset, the said elastic gore being narrow at each end and wide at the middle part thereof, substantially. as described. p

, 3. In a corset, in combination an inelastic top binding, an inelastic bottom binding, a

straight front extending from top to'bottom swell, an elastic inset at the side of the bust-' positions are indicated by the dotted lines at swell, an elasticinset at the side of the bust- Y and diagonally under the bust-swell, a bustset and. elastic gore lapping by each other, swell, an elastic inset at the side of the bustsubstantially as described. [0 swellextending from the top binding toapoint In testimony whereof I sign this specificaintermediate the top and bottom of said eor tion in the presence of two Witnesses.

set, a hip-swell, an elastic gore in the high ADA V. CASE. point of the hip-swell extending from the bot- Witnesses: tom binding to a point intermediate the top CHARLES F. BURTON,

and bottom of the corset, the said elastic in- MAY E. KOTT. 

